Almond specializes in
post-colonial theory, South Asian literature, representations of
Islam and world literature. His works primarily focus on Islam.[1] He is interested in showing how Islam has been an overlooked factor in the formation of Europe. His book Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds[2] is a history of Muslim-Christian military alliances in Europe.
Almond theorizes in History of Islam in German Thought from
Leibniz to
Nietzsche that
Marx,
Hegel, Nietzsche and
Kant knew more about Islam than conventionally assumed. In his work on philosophy, he argues that many postmodernists rely on an Orientalist tropes in writing about Islam. His works seek to explore the repressed spirituality of allegedly secular authors.[3]
He is the author of five books. His books have been translated into several languages, including
Arabic,
Turkish,
Persian,
Korean,
Indonesian and
Bosnian.[1]
The Arabic translation of his book Sufism and Deconstruction was shortlisted among seven other books for the Sheikh Zayed Book Prize.[3]
Bibliography
Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ʻArabi. New York; London: Routledge, 2004.[4]
The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007
ISBN978-1845113988
Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.[5]
History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche. New York: Routledge, 2010.[6]
The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri. London: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
ISBN9781107094437
World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal. Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367683375
^Reviews of Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ʻArabi:
Philosophy East and West, Vol. 62, No. 2 (APRIL 2012), pp. 270-273
Literature and Theology, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2006), pp. 480-482
International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Feb., 2006), pp. 164-165
^Reviews of Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds:
Journal of World History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 595-597
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, Heterodox Movements in the Contemporary Islamic World: Alevis, Yezidis and Ahmadis (DECEMBER 2010), pp. 456-457
The Journal of Religion, Vol. 90, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 94-96
^Reviews of History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche:
Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (May 2012), pp. 269-272
The Modern Language Review, Vol. 107, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 1004-1006
Monatshefte, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Winter 2010), pp. 602-604
Literature and Theology, Vol. 25, No. 1, Poetry and Belief (March 2011), pp. 111-113